Re: What's the different between /tS/ as one phoneme and as two?

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:27:53 +0200

On 2 Aug 2004 11:43:08 GMT, Greg Lee
<greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu> wrote:

>What counts is language evidence. You give
>some Polish examples which you say violate the rule. Maybe they
>do, and maybe they don't. Where are the syllables in your
>examples, and what is the evidence that tells us where they
>are?

That's easy in Polish. Syllabification is essential to
stress placement (the stress always falls on the penultimate
syllable, if there is one), so there can be no doubt about
the number of syllables in a Polish word (where enclitic
prepositions etc. do not count as separate words). <Pstrá,g>
and <rté,c'> are monosyllabic, e.g. <zá rte,c'> "for
mercury".

And you can hear it. There's a big difference between
bisyllabic Czech Petr and monosyllabic Polish Piotr.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl

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